The Ancient Geography of India. I. The Buddhist Period, including the Campaigns of Alexander, and the Travels of Hwen-Thsang c8.s7.9

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According to M. Julien* *Malayakuṭa* was also called *Chi-mo-lo*, which I read as *Jhi-mu-ra*, because the initial syllable is the same as the second syllable of *Chi-chi-to*, or *Jajhoti*. *Jhimura* is perhaps only a variant form of the *Limurike* of Strabo, Ptolemy, and Arrian, and of the *Damirice* of the Peutingerian Tables. It would also appear to be the same name as Pliny’s *Charmæ*, a people who occupied the western coast immediately above the *Pandæ*.